Can royal watchers redefine their reporting role?

September 12, 1997
by MAGGIE BROWN

What will happen to the practice of royal reporting, now that
Princess Diana is buried and the papers gradually return to a more
varied diet of news? We know that the Daily Mail’s reporter Richard Kay
was so close to her that she phoned him from Paris just hours before her
death. That the Mirror’s James Whitaker was in tears as he composed the
paper’s initial tribute. Will this clique of Diana/Charles/Camilla
watchers become redundant?